Works
Looking Back at Black Male
In December 2014, Eugene Lang College presented The Whitney Museum of American Art’s conversation with Thelma Golden, Hilton Als, and Huey Copeland.
In the fall of 1994, the Whitney presented Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, a …
Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production
Cultural production opens avenues for new ways of thinking. How productive or conducive can the methods of withdrawal and boycott be for politically oriented artistic practices? This series of seminars poses an alternative view: to consider withdrawal and boycott as …
Jamie Kruse: Thingness of Energy
Thingness of Energy is a mixed media art installation by Jamie Kruse, presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics in the lobby of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, a glass-enclosed gallery opening onto Fifth Avenue. It …
Offense and Dissent: Image, Conflict, Belonging
Twenty-five years ago, a furor erupted at The New School when Sekou Sundiata, poet, performer, and professor, scrawled his dissent across a blackface image exhibited in the Parsons Galleries. His “X” inspired others and 40 signatures soon covered the image. …
THEASTER GATES: A WAY OF WORKING
The New School’s Vera List Center for Art and Politics and the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) at Parsons The New School for Design present Theaster Gates: A Way of Working. Curated in collaboration with Theaster Gates, recipient …
Inspiring Women
“Inspiring Women” was an exhibit held in conjunction with the conference “No Longer in Exile: The Legacy and Future of Gender Studies at The New School.” The exhibition was made possible in part with support from the School of Art …
Re-Imagining Orozco
A co-presentation of Parsons’ Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and The New School Art Collection, “Re-Imagining Orozco” celebrates José Clemente Orozco’s historic 1931 mural cycle A Call to Revolution and Table of Universal Brotherhood. With the collaboration of Mexican-American artist …
Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding
Timed to coincide with the final stages of the American presidential elections, this international exhibition presents a range of works that reflect on some of the desires generated and satisfied by democracy—such as choice, participation, freedom of expression, a sense …
Living Concrete / Carrot City
Living Concrete/Carrot City is an exhibition of creative and research projects that demonstrate the possibilities of urban agriculture. The exhibition links sociologist Thomas Lyson’s coinage “civic agriculture” to Joseph Beuys’s influential formulation of social transformation and individual creativity, “social sculpture.” …
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Occupy Wall Street (OWS), like other social and political movements of our time, is instantly archival. Continually documented by traditional and new forms of digital and social media, OWS produces an active dialogue with itself, even as it engages with …
